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Example sentences for: surly

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Under Brill's system, I could pay $20-$40 a year to license a used revolver; take a joke of a test administered by a surly, bored, bureaucrat; and carry a concealed weapon anywhere in the country.
The White House helped itself with a brilliant outreach campaign that went around the sometimes surly Congressional Black Caucus and reached black voters directly through their ministers and churches.
I hate them all: the lackadaisical baggage handlers who "accidentally" sent our luggage to a remote cargo area at JFK last week, the surly steward(esse)s, the brazen caterers whose spongy chicken in brown goo so shamelessly denigrates the memory of food.
If surly is a product of class contempt backwards, obnoxious is a thoroughly democratic error; everybody got it wrong.
There are other genuine New England expressions in this volume—and plenty of them—including dingclicker humdinger, forth-putting bold, forward, grouty surly, sullen, Hampton boat a dory-type of sailboat used for fishing, and harness cask a tub used on ships for storing salted meat.